Lagos state Police Command releases crime report for Dec. 2013!

REPORT FROM COMMANDS: MONDAY 30TH DECEMBER, 2013.

HIGHLIGHT

i. Armed Robbers Arrested: 12, Fatally Injured: 5
ii. Recovered Weapon: 10, Ammunition: 2,066, and Cartridge: 3
iii. Recovered Vehicle: 3
iv. Arrested Kidnapper: 1
v. Rescued Kidnap Victim: 1
vi. Drowning: 1
vii. Defilement: 1
viii. Foiled Robbery: 1


1. ARREST OF ARMED ROBBER/RECOVERY OF VEHICLE (EDO STATE): On 20.12.2013 at about 8:45PM, Police patrol team on the trail of a Nissan Primera car (reg no. withheld) earlier reported snatched at gunpoint by 4 armed men along 3rd Cemetery Road, Benin City intercepted the vehicle along Navy street, Benin City. There was a shootout during with one of the armed robbers was fatally injured, three other suspects fled the scene with gunshot injuries. Corpse deposited at the mortuary, two recovered cars taken to the Police station. State CID Benin is investigating.

2. ARREST OF ARMED ROBBER/RECOVERY OF WEAPON (OGUN STATE): On 22.12.2013 at about 6:00AM Police SARS operatives upon a tip-off raided a suspected armed robbers hide-out at Odosenlu village via Ijebu-Ode. One male suspect was arrested; one locally-made pistol, two cartridges and some assorted charms were recovered from the suspect. Efforts to track down other gang members are being intensified, State CID Abeokuta is investigating.

3. ARREST OF ARMED ROBBER/RECOVERY OF WEAPON (LAGOS STATE): On 23.12.2013 at about 1:00PM security personnel at Yaba College of Technology apprehended one male suspect who allegedly forced a male student of the institution to the ATM to withdraw money haven threatened the victim with what was later discovered to be a toy gun. Suspect and exhibit handed over to the Police. State CID Panti-Yaba is investigating.

4. ARREST OF ARMED ROBBER/RECOVERY OF WEAPON (KADUNA STATE): On 23.12.2013 at about 9:30PM upon a distress call that a gang of armed robbers have blocked a section of the Kaduna-Abuja Highway close to Kakau village, Police patrol teams were immediately dispatched to the scene where the hoodlums were engaged in a shootout. One of the suspects dressed in Military style camouflage cloths was arrested with gunshot injuries while other gang members fled the scene with bullet injuries. One locally-made pistol, one live cartridge, one Rifle like carved black stick and one machete were recovered from the suspect. Road was cleared for easy passage of commuters. Injured hoodlum was rushed to the Hospital where he later died. State CID Kaduna is investigating.

5. ARREST OF ARMED ROBBER/RECOVERY OF WEAPON (KATSINA STATE): On 24.12.2013 at about 5:30PM, Combined Police/Special Intervention Force patrol team acting on a tip-off raided a suspected armed robbers hide-out at Safana where three male suspects were arrested and four locally-made guns recovered from them. Suspects linked to recent robbery incidents in the area. State CID Katsina is investigating.

6. ARREST OF ARMED ROBBER/RECOVERY OF WEAPON (KADUNA STATE): On 26.12.2013 at about 8:30PM, Police received a distress call that armed robbers were operating in a house at Attahiru road, Malali. Police patrol teams were immediately dispatched to the scene where the hoodlums were engaged in a shootout, two of the suspects were fatally injured while the other two escaped with gunshot injuries. One locally-made revolver pistol was recovered as well as one Nissan Sunny car reg no. BC 581 RSH brought to the scene by the hoodlums. State CID Kaduna is investigating.

7. ARREST OF ARMED ROBBER (EBONYI STATE): On 26.12.2013 at about 2:45AM, upon a distress call, Police patrol team responded to the scene of armed robbery at a house along Awolowo road, Abakaliki. There was a shootout with the hoodlums; one of the suspects was fatally injured while six others were arrested. Efforts to apprehend other gang members that fled the scene are being intensified. State CID Abakaliki is investigating.

8. RECOVERY OF WEAPON (BENUE STATE): On 24.12.2013 at about 5:30PM Police operatives intercepted one male suspect with a single barrel shotgun at North Bank area Makurdi, suspect was arrested. State CID Makurdi is investigating.

9. RECOVERY OF WEAPON/ARREST OF SUSPECT (CROSS RIVER STATE): On 25.12.2013 at about 4:00AM, Police operatives intercepted two male suspects along Target road and recovered following rounds of ammunition from the suspects; 800 rounds of 7.62mm, 634 rounds of 7.62 by 56mm, 632 rounds of 5.56mm. Suspects arrested, State CID Calabar is investigating.

10. RESCUE OF VICTIM/ARREST OF KIDNAPPER (NASARAWA STATE): On 22.12.2013 at about 10:00PM Police patrol team along Keffi-Masaka Highway intercepted a vehicle conveying one male victim earlier reported kidnapped at One-Man village. Victim was rescued unhurt, one of the kidnappers was arrested while others fled the scene. State CID Lafia is investigating.

11. MURDER/YOUTH RESTIVENESS/ARREST OF SUSPECTS (AKWA IBOM STATE): On 25.12.2013 at about 10:00AM, during the celebration of Okon Day at Okon village, Eket LGA, rival youth groups engaged themselves in a free for all fight using machete. Two male victims died as a result of sever machete cut injuries, corpses deposited at the mortuary. One Policeman also received machete cut injury and taken to hospital, injury said not to be life threatening. One of the Police patrol vehicles that responded to calm the incident was damaged. Five suspects were arrested at the scene, State CID Uyo is investigating.

12. DROWNING (LAGOS STATE): On 25.12.2013 at about 1:30PM, Police received reported that one male victim got drowned while swimming at the pools of one Hotel (name withheld) at Sewage, Ipaja. Corpse recovered and deposited at Igando Hospital Morgue for autopsy. State CID Panti-Yaba Lagos.

13. DEFILEMENT (EKITI STATE): On 27.12.2013 at about 6:00PM Police received a report that one Samuel Ibitayo ‘m’ aged 55yrs of Oke-Eporo had unlawful carnal knowledge of one 15yrs old girl. Victim was rushed to the hospital for medical attention, suspect arrested. State CID Ado-Ekiti is investigating.

14. FOILED ATM ROBBERY/ARREST OF SUSPECT (OGUN STATE): On 28.12.2013 at about 1:20AM Police received a distress call that a group of armed robbers entered the premises of Crescent University Abeokuta. Police patrol teams were immediately dispatched to the scene; prompt police arrival made the hoodlums abandon their criminal act and fled the scene. Five security guards on duty seen tired where rescued unhurt. One of the hoodlums was arrested in the near bush while the following items were recovered close to the GT Bank ATM; Two gas cylinders, two chisels, two hammers, two lighters, one spanner, one screw driver, two cutting nozzles, one torch-light, one ladder, two pairs of sandals and one carton of table water. State CID Abeokuta is investigating.

Inspector general of Police Mohammed Abubakar, flanked by top Police officer

FIRE ALERT!!!!!!!! Please be very careful as several cases of fire incidents were reported across the Nation during the past week.

Maku blames Power failure on criminal activities!

The poor power supply Nigerians are witnessing, despite the power sector reforms of the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, should be blamed on the criminal activities of some citizens, the Minister of Information and Supervising Minister of Defence, Labaran Maku, has said.

Speaking on Sunrise Daily on Monday, Mr Maku defended President Goolduck Jonathan on his August 29, 2012 promise to deliver the “dividends of democracy by 2013.” He said that the administration had been battling with inherited issues of terrorism which had consumed a lot of the State’s funds. “We have been dealing with this for the past three years,” he said.

He was quick to add that despite the war against insecurity, Nigeria’s economy is growing faster than the economies of South Africa and Egypt. He credited this to the President’s study of management of economy.

“Even as we are fighting this war, because the President studied management of the economy, today we are talking about an economy that is growing faster than South Africa and Egypt,” Maku said.

He stressed that resources which would have been channeled into other sectors including education, industry and agriculture had been wasted on the fight against terrorism and political wars.”

“Inspite of this, you have an economy that this year IMF said the Nigerian economy grew by 7.2 per cent, even above government’s own projections 6.9 per cent.”

He continued by saying that: “In 2012, inflation was about 12.2 per cent but today inflation has come down to 8 per cent. It has not been so for the past 20 years.” He also said that the President has built 10 power plants in the last 3 years which no other president has achieved in the nation’s history.

“Jonathan has undertaken a comprehensive (complete) replacement of power transmission infrastructure.” The privatisation exercise is the first stage in the reform process in the power sector,” he explained.

Although the Minister of Power, Chinedu Nebo, recently revealed that the new owners of the power plants are having financial problems, Mr Maku considered the set-back to be “a period of adjustment.”

He expressed optimism that the policy reforms would yield results if Nigerians were responsible enough to desist from criminal acts including cutting down power lines “to cause darkness in some parts of the country.”

“These are citizen’s problems and not problems because of the failure of government,” he added.

“This President (Jonathan) has returned the economy to the path of growth and development, our financial system is better. We inherited a crashed capital market but today the capital market has recovered by 71 percent between 2012 and now.

“In terms of the overall value of shares, we have gone over 11 trillion Naira. This growth makes it clear that the President is making the economy better than anyone,” he stressed.

Goodluck Jonathan condoles Wole Soyinka!

Following the death of the daughter of Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, Iyetade Soyinka, President Goodluck Jonathan issued a condolence through the office of his special Adviser on Media and Publicity Reuben Abati. 

The tweets read:

Reuben Abati ‏@abati1990

On behalf of himself & the FG, President Jonathan extends sincere condolences to Prof. Wole Soyinka on the death of his daughter, Iyetade.

Reuben Abati ‏@abati1990

President Jonathan prays that God Almighty will comfort Prof. Soyinka and all others who mourn his late daughter, Iyetade.

According to a statement signed on behalf of the family by a former Editor of the Guardian on Sunday, Mr. Jahman Anikulapo and a close aide to Soyinka, Iyetade, a mother of two, died while  receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment at the University College Hospital, Ibadan,  the Oyo State capital.

 Born on June 6, 1965, the deceased, according to Anikulapo, attended Staff School and Queens School, Ibadan before reading Medicine at the University of Ibadan.

He described Iyetade as an “affable, intelligent and sometimes capricious,” lady who “struggled with her health in recent years.

“In spite of this, she greeted every day with a smile and doted on her two children. She took ill quite suddenly and passed away while being treated at UCH, Ibadan. Iyetade leaves behind two children, both parents, numerous siblings, nieces and nephews,” the statement added.

Burial plans is yet to be disclosed by the deceased family.

Teen, charged over murder of his girl friend!

A teenage boy and his brother have been charged in the murder of the teen’s Chicago girlfriend who was pregnant with his baby and shot during an attempted drug deal ripoff gone bad, police said.

Anthony Lee

The boyfriend, Anthony Lee, 16, and his brother, Diante Lamont Coakley, 21, both of Dolton, were charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Eva Casara, 17.

Diante Lamont Coakley

Eva Casara was 5 ½-months pregnant when she was shot.

Eva Casara

She later died, but doctors were able to save her baby girl, who is in critical condition in the hospital fighting for her life.

Eva's baby girl, born more than three months premature

Casara was “just in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong company,” said Dolton Police Chief John Franklin, who declined to provide many details about the crime.

Dolton Police said they are searching for a third suspect as well, Franklin said.

The crime scene

Lee and Coakley were taking part in a drug deal when it “spiraled out of control,” and the two began firing their guns, and Casara was hit, police said.

Estrellita Casara, Eva's mother

Mother Arrested in Christmas Day Killing of Teen Daughter!

The woman pictured below was arrested by the Police over the death of her teenage daughter who was found murdered on Christmas Day.

According Police Department, Connie Villa, 35, allegedly attempted to kill all of four her children and her ex-husband Adam Villa on Dec. 25, 2013.

She was charged with first - degree murder for the death of her daughter, 13-year-old Aniarael Macias, who was found dead in the family apartment bathroom.

Police said they believe that Villa called her ex-husband to come over on Christmas Day so that she could kill him. After he arrived, she allegedly stabbed him repeatedly in the torso, police said. Adam Villa was able to escape and call the police as he drove himself to the hospital.

When police arrived at Villa's apartment, they forced open the door and found her holding a knife to her chest with apparent self-inflicted stab wounds on her torso.

Villa's three younger children, ages 3, 5, and 8, were also found without any stab wounds. Macias' body was found in the bathroom, but she had no visible injuries, Casa Grande Police Department spokesman Thomas Anderson said.

A step to true sanitization of her polity: 500 Chinese lawmakers leave office over election fraud!

More than 500 Chinese lawmakers accused of election fraud have been forced out from office, the country’s official Xinhua news agency reported.

The officials were disqualified, dismissed or resigned on Saturday 28th Dec. 2013 following elections in Hunan at the Hengyang municipal people’s congress, the local legislative body.

Fifty-six provincial lawmakers offered bribes to 518 municipal lawmakers and 68 staff members, a statement from the Hunan provincial people’s congress said, according to Xinhua. The total amount of money involved exceeded 110 million yuan, or $18.14m, according to the statement.

The 56 provincial lawmakers were disqualified Saturday and 512 municipal legislator resigned, according toXinhua.

Another five provincial lawmakers who didn’t offer bribes were dismissed and three municipal lawmakers who didn’t accept bribes resigned for “serious dereliction of duty,” the statement said. Another six municipal lawmakers who took bribes had already been transferred.

Tong Mingqian, then party chief of Hengyang, was in charge of the election.

“Tong breached his duty as an official in charge and was directly responsible for this case,” the statement said.

He was fired December 21 as vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, according to Xinhua.

INCREDIBLE...MAN DETAINED FOR TWO MONTHS IN A NIGERIAN PRISON FOR ALLEGEDLY CRITICIZING HIS STATE GOVERNOR ON FACEBOOK!

Tonye Okio pictured below, allegedly spent his 2013 Christmas holidays in a Bayelsa prison, and is to spend the first days of the year 2014 there. 

Tonye Okio

Going by information obtained, He was detained after he posted a Facebook message criticizing the Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, in October, 2013.

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson

Mr. Okio, a businessman, and a former Abuja Liaison officer for Bayelsa state and aide to ex-Bayelsa governor, Timipriye Sylva, was apprehended at his Abuja home on October 26. 

According to report, He was blindfolded and driven to Bayelsa State by the Special Investigation Bureau (SIB). 

Information reveled  that Mr. Okio was stripped of his mobile gadgets, and had the messages about Governor Dickson removed from his Facebook account.

Following his arrest, the Bayelsa Police issued a statement saying that he was arrested for “seditious publications” against the Bayelsa governor.

Mr. Okio was kept in custody for ten days, and his lawyer demanded that his fundamental rights be obeyed and he be charged to court.

On November 5, 2013, it was gathered that Mr. Okio was charged before the Magistrate Court for defamatory publication against the Bayelsa governor. After taking his plea, the Magistrate Court adjourned the case to November 21 for trial. 

On that day, it was reported that the court granted Mr. Okio N5 million bail with one surety in like sum who must be a permanent secretary in the state and resident within the court’s jurisdiction.

Mr. Okio’s lawyer has since reasoned with the court that it would be impossible to satisfy the condition, as the Governor, who is the complainant, must have threatened permanent secretaries in the state. Furthermore, inside sources also hinted that no permanent secretary under the state’s employ dare stand as surety for Mr. Okio.

Although an application was filed at the Nembe Division of the Bayelsa High Court in the state to demand a variation in the bail conditions, the court reportedly fixed three consecutive days for hearing and was unable sit on any of those days.

A ruling on the review of bail application was slated for December but was again adjourned by the presiding judge. On the said date, the judge through the court’s registrar notified counsels that the ruling on the bail review application was not ready, and, therefore, the case was adjourned till January 20.

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” ― John F. Kennedy